Why am I unable to resolve host names until nscd is restarted?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We tested host name resolution with ping, wget, and third party applications and host name resolution is failing while nscd is running.
  • Restarting nscd fixes the issue.
  • Intermittent ping request failure.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • NSCD

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